Machine for making confectionery



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P. KNORPP & G. A. MAYER. MACHINE FOR MAKING GONFBGTIONERY.

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. P. KNORPP & G. A. MAYER. MAGHINE FOR MAKING OONFBGTIONBRY.

No. 407,935. Patented July 30, 1889.

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PHILLIP KNORPP AND GUSTAV A. MAYER, OF .STAPLETON, NE\V YORK.

MACHINE FOR MAKING CONFECTIONERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,935, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed April 19, 1889. Serial No. 307,720, (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PHILLIP KNoRPP and GUSTAV ADOLPH MAYER, both of Stapleton, in the county of Richmond and State of New York, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Confectionery, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved machine for making an article of confectionery in which letters or other designs are produced in paste on a foundation of paper or other suitable material, which confectionery forms the subject-matter of a concurrent application for Letters Patent filed April 17, 1889, and serially numbered 307,543; and the invention consists of a machine for making confectionery comprisingareceptacle for sugar paste or other similar mass, a follower in said receptacle, a perforated bottom plate in said receptacle for the design to be produced, a vertically-reciprocating table below said receptacle, said table being provided with transverse spring-actuating keepers for holding the paper or other foundation for the paste designs in position on the table, and fixed stops below said keepers for releasing the same from the table to permit of the forward feeding of the paper for the length required.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical transverse section of our improved machine for making confectionery on the line 0: 00, Fig. 2, some of the parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same with a part of the receptacle for thepaste broken away, and Fig. 3 represents a face view of the article of confectionery to be made by the machine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the supporting-frame of our improved machine for making confectionery. At the upper rear part the frame is provided with vertical standards A, which are extended in upward direction so as to support a receptacle B for the sugar paste required for making the confectionery. The receptable B- is attached to the standards A by means of lugs b, which are attached thereto by clampscrews 1), as shown in Fig. 2. The bottom B of the receptacle B is perforated according to the design to be produced, and the paste is forced out through the perforated bottom by means of the follower G, which is forced down on the body of paste in the receptacle B by a lever D, which is provided with a pivoted and spring-actuated pawl d, that engages the'rack-shaped stem C of the follower C. The lever D is fulcrumed to a transverse piece connecting the upper parts of the-standards A and guided at its front end in a fork D, which is hinged to the front part of the receptacle B and retained thereon by a key d, which is passed through keepers d", as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The rear end of the lever D is acted upon by a spiral spring D which is attached thereto and to the frame A, so as to exert a lifting action on the lever as soon as the same is released.

The follower rod or stem 0 is guided between the lever D and the guide-disk 61 the shank of which passes through a slot (1 of the lever D, and is retained by a thumb-nut 61 as shown in Fig. 2. NVhenever it is desired to insert a new supply of paste into the receptacle B, the front guide-fork D is released and moved into the lowered position and the guide-disk (l is loosened and moved to the lower end of the slot d so as to clear the fol lower-stem C. 'The follower O is then raised, removed laterally, and the receptacle B refilled with a new supply of sugar paste and the guide-disk (1 brought back into the position shown in Fig. 1 and locked in place.

Below the receptacle B is arranged a table E, that is supported on avertical rod E,which is guided in sleeves of the cross-pieces A of the frame A. The lower end of the vertical table-supporting rod E is connected with fulcrumed and weighted lever E,which imparts a lifting action on the table E, so as to move the same up in contactwith the bottom of the receptacle B, said lever being mounted on a cross-rod E of its frame. For moving the table E in downward direction away from the receptacle the hand-wheel f on the shaft F is turned so that a pinion f, which meshes with a rack at the rear side of the verticallysupporting rod E, moves the table in downward direction against the tension of the weight D. On the shaft F is arranged a ratchet-wheel f which is engaged by a pivoted and spring-actuated pawl f which extended toward the front part of the machine in the form of alever 1", which lever, when depressed, disengages the pawl f from the teeth of the ratchet-wheel f For lowering the table E the pawl f has to be disengaged and simultaneously the hand wheel f turned. When the table is lowered as far as required, the pawl f is permitted to engage the ratchet-wheel f so as to lock the table in position until it is released by pressing the pawl-lever f in downward direction.

The table E is provided at both ends beyond the outer sides of the receptacle B with transverse keepers. g, which are applied to the upper ends of the guide-rods g, which pass through holes of the table, and are connected at their lower ends by bars 9 Spiral springs g are interposed between the under side of the table E and the lower bar g said springs serving to retain the keepers in contact with the top surface of the table E as soon as the lower bars g are raised above the fixed stops h, which are held in the upper cross-pieces A by means of suitable set-screws h. As soon as the table E is raised and the bars g moved away from the stops it the spiral springs 9 cause the downward motion of the keepers g, and they serve thereby to hold a continuous strip M of paper that is passed over the top surface of the table E rigidly in position on the said top surface of the table. As soon as the table is lowered and the bars g are brought in contact with the stops it, the keepers are raised above the table, and thereby the paper released, so that the same can be pulled forward and a new piece of paper placed below the receptacle B. The paper is supplied from a roll Gr,13116 shaftof which is supported in bearings at one end of the table E, as shown in Fig. 2. The pa per strip or band is properly perforated according to the length of foundation required for each article of confectionery made thereon, so that they can be readily separated into proper lengths after the designs have been transferred to the same and dried in suit-" able drying-rooms. From the table E the strip passes upon an endless conveying-belt I-I, (shown in Fig. 2,) from which itis conveyed to the drying-rooms for drying the paste deposited thereon from the receptacle.

Our improved machine for making articles of confectionery is operated as follows: A strip of paper of proper length is placed below the perforated bottom of the receptacle B, and clamped on the same by raising the table by the influence of the weighted lever at its lower end on releasing the pawl-lever f from the ratchetwheel f By the raising of the lever the keepers g are applied tightly to the paper strip supported on the top surface of the table. When the table is thus raised againstthe bottom of the receptacle B, the lever D is taken hold of and the follower pressed downward, so that a quantity of paste sufficient for forming the design on the paper is ejected through the openings of the perforated bottom. The table is then lowered and the keepers removed from the paper by the contact of their lower bars g with the stops h. The paper is then moved forward from the table toward the right-upon the conveying-belt- H and a new length of paper placed below the receptacle. The table is then raised again and placed below the bottom of the receptacle, the' next design is ejected from the receptacle, as before described, and so on. In this manner the articles of confectionery of the character described can be made quickly and at a very low price.

Our machine is also adapted for making other articles of confectionery in which a suitable ornamentation of icing or a paste is used, in which case the articles of confectionery have to be placed 011 the table in suitable trays and supplied with icing by the lowering of the follower in the manner before described.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a machine for making confectionery, the combination of a paste-receptacle having a perforated bottom and a follower guided in said receptacle, a vertically-guided table below the receptacle, transverse and springactuated keepers at the ends of the table, and

fixed stops below said keepers, so as to raise the same against the tension of the springs when 'the table is lowered, substantially as set forth.

2. In a machine for making confectionery, the combination, with a paste-receptacle having a perforated bottom, of a follower the fol lower-rod of which is provided with a racklowering the table, and a pawl-and-ratchet device for locking the pinion and rack-barin position, substantially as set forth.

In testimony thatwe claim' the foiegoin g as our invention we have signed our names in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHILLIP KNORPP. GUSTAV A. MAYER.

itn ess es:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, JOHN A. STRALEY.

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